Okay, y'all, time to play What's in your bag?
Buffy: So how'd she get away with the bad mojo stuff? Anya: Giles sold it to her. Giles: Well, I didn't know it was her. I mean, how could I? If it's any consolation, I may have overcharged her.
'Sleeper'
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - May 27, 2008 6:50:55 pm PDT #9277 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Burrell - May 27, 2008 6:52:43 pm PDT #9278 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I wish I read more fiction lately. Which I guess means I'm no help, Allyson.
Right now I'm reading Omnivore's Dilemma. Such an interesting way of looking at food, and at our addlepated version of capitalism. Oo, and speaking of our addlepated version of capitalism, did anyone else see The Corporation?
dcp - May 27, 2008 7:00:49 pm PDT #9279 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
suggestions?
Cryptonomicon
§ ita § - May 27, 2008 7:01:17 pm PDT #9280 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Allysin: early Grisham, very early (published, not written) James Patterson, old school Ian Fleming, and old faithful John LeCarre.
Actually, toss LeCarre and replace him with Graham Greene.
Lee - May 27, 2008 7:09:23 pm PDT #9281 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Typo Boy - May 27, 2008 7:21:47 pm PDT #9282 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Factoid: [link] 23% of USAians claim to have personally seen a ghost. 5% of USAians claim to have personally seen the monster in the closet. As to the latter statistic, I wonder what percent of USAians, when given the opportunity, screw with pollsters.
Vortex - May 27, 2008 7:36:19 pm PDT #9283 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
allyson, he might enjoy some Lawrence Sanders. the sins series is really good. If he wants something more frivolous, the Archie McNally books are good (but only the ones written by Ludlum. The ones after he died are crap)
§ ita § - May 27, 2008 7:37:48 pm PDT #9284 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd say 5% is about in line with the number of people I know who've seen The Boogeyman. That %age of ghosts? Easy peasey.
NSM w/ me, though.
Lee - May 27, 2008 7:49:49 pm PDT #9285 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
5% of USAians claim to have personally seen the monster in the closet.
Did they seem them as adults though?
When I was 5, my bedroom furniture would get up and move around the bedroom because the clown heads in the freakass painting my mother insisted on hanging (5 or 6 clowns' heads floating on a black background) told it to.
Just because it wasn't real doesn't mean I didn't see it.
Burrell - May 27, 2008 7:51:11 pm PDT #9286 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Does the monster have to be in the closet? Or does any monster count?
Frances asked me the other day if fairies are real. I thought of Pan's Labyrinth and couldn't bring myself to say "no" so instead I told her most children would say yes and most adults would say no.